Protesters scuffle with police at the Unite The Kingdom march in London in September. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Some of today’s far right is openly violent and undemocratic – ...

The spectre of right-wing authoritarianism is haunting the world. Right-wing authoritarianism has increasingly moved from right-wing populism into a twenty-first century fascism that some people ...

The rise of populism has received extensive academic and media attention. Research into the uses of "populism" in news media indicates that it predominantly has a disparaging connotation and is ...

The term "fascist" has been increasingly used to describe President-elect Donald Trump, including by former high-ranking members of his White House staff. However, labeling Trump a fascist is ...

Federico Finchelstein Ph.D. ’06, a professor of History at The New School for Social Research at the Eugene Lang College in New York City, will be leading a lecture titled “From Populism to Fascism?” ...

The Age of Trump wrapped itself in the flag of false patriotism while simultaneously destroying America’s sacred civic myths about its national greatness and the permanence of its democracy. This ...

In his address to the nation last Wednesday night, President Biden declared that America was at an “inflection point,” at which people would have “to choose between moving forward or backward, between ...

In February 1939, more than 20,000 American citizens packed Madison Square Garden to salute a portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. This wasn’t Berlin. It was New York City. Outside, ...

The global rise of the authoritarian right has confounded classification and led to contentious debates on the left. Do politicians like Modi, Bolsonaro, Orban, and Trump represent an extreme form of ...

On Oct. 31, 1936, FDR held a rally at Madison Square Garden. Here are some of the things he said – see if they sound like anyone you know: "The nation knows that I hate war, and I know that the nation ...